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Rumsfeld Lays Out Defense
For Proposed Pentagon Budget

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Updated Feb. 7, 2006 2:31 p.m. ET

The military must continue to change in order to defend the nation against terrorists who could acquire a nuclear weapon or launch an anthrax attack against a major U.S. city, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday.

"No nation, no matter how powerful, has the resources or capability to defend everywhere, at every time, against every conceivable type of attack," said Mr. Rumsfeld in remarks prepared for delivery to the Senate Armed Services Committee. "The only way to protect the American people, therefore,...